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We are still using up these little packets of jam that my parents bought a catering pack of many years ago for their self-catering rental house (back when they started they used to leave a full cooked meal ready for guests when they arrived, later on it was just milk, bread, butter, and some cereals and jams).
They are now quite a few years out of date and thus getting a bit rubbery, but my dad won't throw them away. But every time I look at them I remember the old "Fly Fishing by J R Hartley" Yellow Pages TV advert (which I see they have since updated and remade).
Can anyone confirm what this is? It's attached inside the fitting for a 6-foot fluourescent light tube in my garage. I thought it was the starter at first, but all the starters I've been able to find are much much smaller and have a bayonet fitting at the end. The marking saying "8·4 µF" leads me to think it may just be a *very* chunky capacitor, and the ballast (which is very identifiable because it says "S.R.S. ballast for 1x 6ft. 85 watt tube" on its label) might be a type that doesn't need a separate starter, perhaps.
Not that it really matters now; I've since decided, rather than trying to replace the starter (which doesn't seem to exist) I'm going to replace both whole light fittings and their delicate and malfunctioning fluourescent tubes with four LED light fixtures. Going to add another light switch next to the garage's side door too, because when it's dark it's annoying to have to stumble through the whole garage to/from the only switch which is next to the front doors.
Several days ago my sister sent me a text suggesting I look outside and north to see the aurora in action. She said she's barely been able to see it, but a photo made it quite visible. I wasn't able to get much at all, just a vaguely redish or greenish tinge to the sky. In the end I had more fun doing long exposure photos of the road to get those "streaky" car light trails! (Pics 4, 5 and 6 below.)
I did get a fairly decent picture of ursa major though (pics 2 and 3 below) without much camera shake, even.
If he gets copyright protections then everyone Midjourney ripped off should too. It's only fair.
Famous AI Artist Says He’s Losing Millions of Dollars From People Stealing His Work
The guy who used Midjourney to create an award-winning piece of AI art demands copyright protections.
We're ONE MONTH AWAY from Extra Life 2024!!!
Seattle: Furs For Life is planning a 24+ hour marathon of gaming goodness, goofs, and surprises, all to support the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals!
✨❤️Nov 2-3❤️✨
Save the date, and save our page+stream to support!
https://www.extra-life.org/participant/FFLSeattle
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Do you have a moment to talk about our lord and savior, Amanita Muscaria?
Having a fun Raccoon Appreciation Day in the forest!
There is no quest so relentless as collecting things you don't even know you need until you see them, and you know you need more somehow even if you don't know what it is.
Let's appreciate our raccoon friends on this International Raccoon Appreciation Day!!
Acrylics over a curated an important cardboard from a very cheap pizza place in New York City. It traveled two countries to be painted!
And it's coming back to the country of its origin if I exhibit it at the MFF's Art Show.
You can see some pictures of the process of this piece on the first comment of my Telegram art channel: https://t.me/panda_paco
Official Art Channel 🇲🇽 Clean cute artist. Full-Time Panda. Here to paint some smiles. https://linktr.ee/panda_paco Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pandapaco Ko-Fi Shop: https://ko-fi.com/panda_paco/shop Stickers channel: @pacostickersTelegram
It's the first of the month.
The Orange Site will be posting an assload of job openings.
There are tools in the "whoishiring" OP to filter all the "hybrid" and onsite jobs.
Even if you're ultimately not interested or even qualified, it'd be funny if a lot of people told them "yeah onsite/hybrid isn't an option for me, are you open to remote?"
Because, let's be real, recruiters hear back from very few people that aren't interested, so they're going to collect data on that. And if they hear 10 or so people say "remote only or bust" (regardless of your actual qualifications or interest), that will get circulated up to HR.
Which means they'll have to make the case for allowing remote employees.
And if they succeed, then the barrier to entry to the tech industry gets lowered for folks living outside of a big tech city.
So, I'm not saying we should do a little trolling.
I'm not saying that.
But if your conscience is? We'll, I don't blame it.
It’s very rare to hear of any positive world-leading policy from round here these days, but the UK’s now the first country to bin off coal power in favour of renewables. And they did it when they said they would too!
I’m not one for feelings of national pride at all. But for all the shit over the last decade, it’s good to see something nice for once.
UK’s 142-year history of coal-fired electricity ends as turbines at Ratcliffe-on-Soar plant in Nottinghamshire stop for goodJillian Ambrose (The Guardian)
"You have found my darkest secret," the dragon said. "You can never reveal it."
"I will not," said the knight, "but why is it such a horrible secret?"
"It's my one vulnerability."
"This?"
The knight scritched between the dragon's horns.
"Mmm," it purred.
"This is nice."
"Mrrmrm."
@Darkhorse WinterWolf 🇪🇺 I just thought to turn off wifi on my phone and tried it from there over mobile internet (should have thought to try that before)… and it worked. Then connected to wifi again… and it still worked. Still doesn't work on my laptop on wifi. I wonder if they just don't like desktop firefox! Oh well, done now. Thanks.
For some reason at first they showed my bike as uninsured, then when I tried again it showed up as insured. That inspires confidence. 🙄
Eveyone: "US customary units are BS."
USA: "We went to the moon on customary units."
France and UK: "Son, we went to New York and back three times a day, every day, for thirty years, at Mach 2.1, eating canapés and drinking champagne, on SI units."
Organist Anna Lapwood presents a beginner’s guide to the organ, from stops, pedals and manuals to pipes and wind chests.Filmed at St John's Smith Square in L...YouTube
The terms "Super Hero" and "Super Heroes" have entered the public domain. Previously, these were trademarks jointly owned by Marvel and DC.
I saw The Wild Robot last night, and rarely has a film ever felt so close to my heart.
So much beauty and sweetness, but well balanced with some dark wit and mortality themes. It all blends so poignantly, and so many times during the movie I just felt so profoundly in love with it.
Also haven’t cried this much in a long time, but if that sounds like a warning or a negative, it isn’t. This movie couldn’t have come at a better time, and I hope it makes a billion because it should.
As I've been meaning to post for a few days now:
Aw. :(
(I was really getting into that, catching up on it every day, was even planning to do an audiobook-like reading of it. Oh well. :/)
Hey readers, thanks for joining me on this journey, but I'm going to terminate it here. My goal was to write a minimum 500 words a day every day WITHOUT EXCEPTION, proving to myself I could be consistent. (...)Royal Road
It's #fursuitfriday !!!
Squeezing a tune with an excited MeekoTooth ! 🦊🌈🪗 :3
📸 Harry Husky
📌 at Scotiacon
You know how we have Torment Nexus at home? Well it seems to be the same torment nexus, it's just pretending to be a TV.
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smiling guy in a well: "[the xkcd 'proliferation of standards' comig], I am very intelligent"](https://floof.org/photo/preview/640/592725 "medieval peasant: \"we should improve technology somewhat\"
smiling guy in a well: \"[the xkcd 'proliferation of standards' comig], I am very intelligent\"")
@Samael :therian: Yup!
...Wait, what do you mean it's not even halloween yet? ;)
(My sisters are hopefully looking out for some halloweeny stuff to put outside our front door — I'd like to attract trick or treaters and do a bit of fursuiting and/or spideysuiting for it this year!)